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Not breaking my heart, anyway, for when a man's a man -- H'm! "clearing his throat," I'm bad dreadful these days wanting a smook in the mornings.
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"When some men is getting religion there's no more inside at them than a gutted herring, and they're good for nothing but to put up in the chimley to smook."
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"H'm! h'm!" he said, clearing his throat; "I'm bad dreadful wanting a smook."
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Then we'll slip up by the bridge yonder, and down the quay like a mill race, and up to the gangway like smook, and abooard in a jiffy.
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But aw know some at nivver smook 'at's getten wrang as far
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To smook a pipe o 'bacca is th' warst thing they've lent throo me:
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An as aw sit to smook mi pipe, mi treasures on mi knee;
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For they smook, an they drink, an get other bad ways;
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'Twod happen be as weel, aw think, if they'd to smook thersen; --
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Aw wor varry soary abaat it, but it couldn't be helpt, an they all sed they'd nivver had a better drinkin 'i' ther life, soa one or two helpt me to side th 'table an straighten up a bit, for ther husbands wor all ta coom an hey a smook an a drop o' summat short after they'd eoom throo ther wark.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
sionnach commented on the word smook
to prowl stealthily about a place, with the intent of pilfering small articles.
April 28, 2009